Jeebus this took longer than it should have. Unfortunately we had the task of nailing down the other spirit’s colors at the same time. BEHOLD, THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

29 pages folks — chapter one is over and now the fun can really begin. This is something of a landmark for us, our first chapter of our first original comic done! Image here is a bit small so if you like things big and shiny check this version out: http://www.mahoushounenfight.com/09122010_large.jpg In the print version, this will be a two page ‘spread’. (If you can call lockers with gray splashed on them a spread?)

Yep, I said print version. Now that we’re done with chapter 1, we’ll be putting together the first print run of Shounen Fight. It’ll include a full color version of chapter 1, guest art, concept sketches and some other extra ‘omake’. We’ll get more details on this as we progress — and we will be taking preorders with special extras. 😀

Over the next week we’ll be having some guest artists contributing to MSF while we scramble madly to get chapter 2 started and prepare for the winter cons. We’ve been confirmed for Saboten Con in Phoenix, SugoiCon in the Cincinnati area and we’ll also be at New York Anime Fest next month.

We can’t thank you folks enough for giving our first comic a chance and making it a great and encouraging experience. All of your kind comments have fueled us on late nights of drawing on the road and in airports and in artist alleys, trying to get this silliness done on something resembling a schedule.

Maybe you think this comic is pretty dumb. Kids, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

It’ll be our first time in the Big Apple and frankly I’m a little terrified if excited. Being California bred and raised, like so much abused cattle, sometimes I have a little culture shock when we travel. I will admit to being very frustrated in more than one air port after purchasing something that claimed to be ‘a smoothie’ but was in fact a sugary slush of soft serve ice cream and fruit flavored syrup. On my recent trip home from Dallas, I had a layover at 8 AM in Houston where I stumbled blindly into a smoothie place and in a sleepy stupor asked if they had anything with acai in it. The look I received was a low point in my history of being that crazy California faggot.

Tofu and hemp aside, New York City is, I would have to think, what Hollywood is to folks on the East coast. A magical, glorified place where the Statue of Liberty stands sentry, sparkling over the Atlantic while Annie dances merrily through the streets with Daddy Warbucks. In the mystique of the Natural History Museum, the exhibits come to life at night, Miracles happen on 34th St. and this happens on a nightly basis:

THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST TRIP EVER.

And if not, we’re back home to our native turf, to the embrace of rampant homosexuality, Yaoi Con in the city we met in, San Francisco. Where the only thing thicker than the fog is the liberalism and you can get a vegan whole grain raw food wrap with avocadao at 2 in the morning.

Hey again folks. Over here at ShounenFight.com, we’re taking a break to feature some guest art while we catch up on our commission work… In the meantime, we wanted to address something that’s been coming up a lot lately…

Over the last few weeks, we’ve gotten a lot of messages on the various places we whore ourselves out on the internet, asking if we’re going to be at specific conventions. Thank you guys all for your interest in having us come to your city, there’s really nothing more satisfying or flattering than knowing you want us there. 😀 And after some thought put into the subject, we’ve finally opted to put on our pride on the line to say it’s time for us to ask for your help.

Especially now that we’re about to put our first chapter of Shounen Fight to print, we are trying to do as many conventions as we can to get word out about the comic. Unfortunately, there’s some cons — even the bigger ones — that we can’t get in to. For instance, we’ve wanted to go to Sakura Con for ages but their artist alley sells out so quickly that we can’t get a booth after years of trying. Both Katsucon and AWA and a few others have restrictions on fan art that keep us from selling in their AA. Others are just plain off our radar, even though we would totally go to them if we knew of them! How can you help us out? Let us know if there’s a convention you’d like to see us at! we’re always looking for new cons to fit in to the schedule. But even beyond that, want to see us at the con? Send your favorite cons a quick note that you’d love to see us as a guest! Guest artists are usually helped with getting their booth in exchange for doing panels. A few years back, we made a trip out to Jacon in Florida to judge their masquerade under similar conditions. Most convention web sites have a page for contacts — if you have a minute, send a quick message to the coordinators that you’d be happy to see the folks from ScuttlebuttInk.com at the convention, simple as that.

Don’t have time for that or don’t go to cons, still wanna help us out? Take a few minutes to put up a link for us on your social network of choice. Friend us on Facebook and like something every now and then or toss us a favorite on DA. Blog a quick rec for ShounenFight.com or a little blurb about our badges at ScuttlebuttInk.com. The more readership we can get for the comic, the more likely we can make it to more conventions!

As far as what conventions we’ll be at, our updated schedule is at badges.ScuttlebuttInk.com (on the main page for now) and we’ve now got some working catalog and order form stuf up. For those of you who’ve been curious about our commissions, you can read the details on how we do these here: http://badges.scuttlebuttink.com/custom.php.

The truth is, we wouldn’t and couldn’t be doing any of this without you so maybe we shouldn’t be shy about asking for favors. The feedback we’ve been getting from our readers and watchers and customers at cons over the last few months has been incredible. The truth is, at heart we’re just a couple of attention whores who, like retard emotional vampires, subsisting on the laughter of others. It’s why we’ve been doing comedy and dance skits at cons for six years. It’s why we bother to go to the trouble of putting our stories out there, whether its fanfic or its our own. It’s why we do everything we do. So if nothing else, thanks for everything lately, guys and we hope we can keep you smiling.

I like coming into a comic late, becuase;A) you get to read a bunch of pages without waiting for an updateandB) you get to watch through the pages and see how much the artist(s) have improvedI’m loving the comic! *bookmarked*